Gender Disparity in agricultural credit facilities or inputs distribution
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Gender Disparity in agricultural credit facilities or inputs distribution
Abstract
This study focused on gender disparities in agricultural financing facilities and input allocation. A case study of the Nasarawa local government region in Kano state. The study’s overall population is 200 people from the Nasarawa local government area in Kano State. The researcher employed questionnaires to collect data.
The descriptive survey research design was used for this investigation. The survey used 133 respondents made up of married men, married women, youths, and farmers. The acquired data was organised into tables and analysed using simple percentages and frequencies.
Chapter one
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Women’s contributions to economic progress are hard to overstate. In many poor countries’ agricultural sectors, they are the primary driving force, spending a significant amount of time planting, weeding, ridging, and harvesting while still performing their daily tasks.
Nigeria’s agricultural sector is characterised by two fundamental elements. The first is the prevalence of female labour in agriculture, whereas the second is the occurrence of a gender gap in agricultural productivity.
The feminisation of agriculture is visible in Nigeria, where women account for a higher proportion of agricultural labour than men, potentially ranging from 30 to 80 percent. Nonetheless, women face adverse labour conditions in the rural economy. Gender inequalities in the rural sector are unsurprising in Malawi.
A 2004 poll found that ladies earned 35% less than males in rural areas. Furthermore, around 89% of three working women are involved in part-time off-farm activities, compared to 67% of males. Women in rural wage work were more concentrated in lower skill activities (61.4%), compared to 37% for men (Hertz et al. 2009).
Gender differences in agricultural productivity range from 4 to 40 percent depending on the country, the representativeness of the data, the type of crop, and the composition of households, among other variables (Akresh, 2005; Alene et al., 2008; Gilbert et al., 2002; Goldstein and Udry, 2008; Moock 1976; Peterman et al., 2011; Oladeebo and Fajuyigbe, 2007; Quisumbing et al., 2001; Saito et al., 1994; Tiruneh et al., 2001; Udry, 1996; Vargas Hill and Vigneri, 2011).
The primary motivations for this study are the difference in women’s agricultural engagement and the huge gender gap in agricultural production. Both traits imply that the agricultural industry may be falling short of its production potential, and that there is a gender dimension to the problem.
Thus, it is critical to understand the fundamental causes of the disparities in agricultural production between male and female farmers.
The literature has identified several key reasons for the observed gender gap in agricultural productivity, including gender differences in (i) access and use of agricultural inputs, (ii) tenure security and related investments in land and improved technologies, (iii) market and credit access, (iv) human and physical capital, and (v) informal and institutional constraints affecting farm/plot management and marketing of agricultural produce (Peterman et al. 2011).
Cultural roles assigned to males and females regarding domestic duties, as well as other factors that may underlie gender segregation in crop production (i.e. staple vs. cash crop cultivation, high-yielding vs. low-yielding variety cultivation, etc.), could be thought of as informal institutional constraints.
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